Injustice: Gods Among Us was only just the beginning. NetherRealm, the same video game studio that develops the Mortal Kombat series has yet another blockbuster Fighter franchise on their hands. Injustice delves into an alternate DC Universe where Earth’s greatest hero, Superman, becomes the type of tyrannical villain he was once sworn to oppose after he executes The Joker. The snowball effect of that event creates a world where our heroes and villains are drastically changed and the status quo of the DC Universe is flipped upside down.
The first game’s story mode had the heroes of a more familiar Earth come to help Batman’s rebels battle Superman’s regime, but this new installment shows us the aftermath of that story. A new threat emerges as Brainiac (who is responsible for the destruction of Krypton in this reality) attacks Earth’s cities and enlists the world’s vilest menaces to aide him.
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It is those (sometimes few and far between) times in every collectors life when things happen just right. It does not matter what you collect or what you are looking for. Finding that great item or items for your collection is a fantastic feeling! The feeling is universal! And here for the seventh time is a "great finds" column!
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Welcome back to the weekly episodic breakdown of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on ENR. Last week the entire perspective on this show changed and the DCTVU is never going to look the same. This week the team travels to 1987, visits their younger selves and learns in detail about the tides of change and how it applies to our time travel heroes…er legends.
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"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die!" -- Babe Ruth. "The EPIC Of The CENTURY -- STARTS RIGHT HERE! So screams the cover blurb on the cover of the first issue of DC's six issue mini series "Legends". The people tasked with producing the book had a daunting task before them. Legends was o be DC's follow up to the monumental Crisis On Infinite Earths comic that had made such an impact the previous year. The problem? How do you follow a series that featured thousands of characters (every character that existed in DC Comics stable made at least a brief appearance during the course of the issues)?
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With episode 4 of Legends of Tomorrow the stride has finally been hit Though for this viewer it was more a sudden understanding of what the CW was trying to accomplish that chaged my perspective of the show dramatically. If you have read my reviews of the first three episodes you know I have been both critical and praising of the show but this episode changes everything. And by changes I mean the name of the game.
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To make a show primarily focused on time travel is a difficult thing when you rely on the headiness of the plot to anchor the viewer rather than the emotional bonds of less intricately plotted shows. One of the easiest ways to do this however involves making the time periods relevant and interesting enough to tell more self-contained stories within the larger.
But with Legends, as we have discussed, there is a serious piece missing from the series, even more than last season’s freshman run. You see, the best parts of the CW superhero lineup on the other nights of the week is the deep thematic approach that is not taken here and those themes tend to make us emotionally connected to them.
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For the first time, it is my honor to walk you through DC’s Legends of Tomorrow each week like I did for Flash, Arrow and Supergirl last season. However, as I watched the two-part season premiere for examination and exploration here I was immediately struck by how different this series is structurally from the rest of the Arrowverse.
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Here we are. The holiday season is in full gear and the weather is getting colder and outside is becoming a winter wonderland, and the snow and ice will soon be a daily part of our lives. AGH! I can’t fake it. Believe it or not! Where I am....CANADA...it’s like “shorts” weather! Seriously!
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